The ODSC West 2024 Full Schedule is LIVE!

From Tuesday, October 29th to 31st, we’ve curated a schedule packed with over 150 practical sessions, hands-on workshops, and expert-led talks designed to help you sharpen your skills and elevate your role as a data scientist or AI professional

. With top AI companies like Anthropic, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft presenting, you’ll get insights straight from the industry leaders driving innovation. Here’s a quick look at what each day of ODSC West 2024 has in store:

Tuesday, October 29th

Day 1 features a little bit of everything. Some highlights include:

• Talks, hands-on workshops, and tutorials.
• The Gen Ai X Summit, including keynotes, talks, panels, and tutorials
• The Expo Hall, featuring two Demo Theaters
• Opening Networking Reception and VIP/Speaker Welcome Reception at night

Sessions:

• Talks:
• Compound AI Systems and the Future of AI Integration
• Large Model Quality and Evaluation
• Empowering Future Gen-AI Enterprise
• Data Morph: A Cautionary Tale of Summary Statistics
• How AI Agents and Humans Can Work Together to Transform Our Work
• Training
• Building with Llama 3.2
• Uncertainty Quantification: Approaches and Methods
• Mastering Web Data Acquisition Techniques
• Introduction to Containers for Data Science / Data Engineering
• A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases and Their Implementation
• Enhancing AI Accuracy with Advanced Data Augmentation Techniques
• Tutorials:
• Building High-Quality Domain-Specific Small Language Models
• Scaling Deep Learning Training in PyTorch
• Workshops:
• Idiomatic Polars
• Machine Learning with CatBoost
• How to Make LLMs Fit Into Commodity Hardware Again: A Practical Guide

Wednesday, October 30th

There’s even MORE to do on day two of ODSC West:

• More training, hands-on workshops, tutorials, and talks
• Keynote sessions with Nick Becker, Technical Product Manager at NVIDIA, Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Director of Applied AI Engineering and Head of AI Center of Excellence at Google Cloud, and Chip Huyen, VP of AI & OSS at Voltron Data
• More time to visit the AI Expo & Demo Hall
• The AI Startup Showcase
• Day 1 of the co-located Data Engineering Summit, with more keynotes, talks, and panels
• Day 2 of the Gen Ai X Summit
• The NVIDIA AI Hackathon with a HUGE prize pool
• The Main ODSC Networking Reception at night — get your Halloween costume ready!
• Roulette Talks during the networking reception

Sessions:

• Keynotes:
• Nick Becker, Technical Product Manager at NVIDIA — From AI to Data Processing: The Next Phase of Accelerated Computing
• Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Director of Applied AI Engineering at Google
• Dr. Alfred Spector, Visiting Scholar at MIT and Senior Advisor at Blackstone — Beyond Models — Applying AI and Data Science Effectively
• Chip Huyen, VP of AI & OSS at Voltron Data
• Talks:
• RAG on the Edge
• RAG in 2024: Advancing to Agents
• Frontiers of Foundation Models for Time Series
• Data Science in the Age of Generative AI
• Building Reliable Coding Agents
• The Business of Open Source AI
• Training:
• LLMs from prototype to production — LLMOps, Prompt Engineering
• Intro to Building Enterprise-ready Gen AI Applications with Vector Databases
• Going From Unstructured Data to Vector Similarity Search
• Develop LLM Powered Applications with LangChain and LangGraph
• LLMOps Infrastructure for Production-grade RAG Applications
• Workshops:
• Causal Graphs: Applying PyWhy to Go Beyond Explainability
• How to Build an Interactive Front End for Your Python Data Science Models
• Essential Optimal Decision-Making: Building ModelsWorkshop: Building Big Data Workflows: NiFi, Hive, Trino, & Zeppelin
• Build a RAG-based application on SEC filing data

Thursday, October 31st

It may be the last day of the conference, but there’s still plenty to do.

• Even more training, talks, and tutorials
• Keynote sessions with Sergey Levine, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Co-founder of Physical Intelligence, and Benjamin Mann , Co-founder of Anthropic
• The Startup Pitch & Showcase
• Book signings
• Breakout networking sessions
• Day 2 of the Data Engineering Summit
• AI After Dark — we’ll shuttle you to San Francisco to celebrate Halloween! (Sign up required!)

Sessions:

• Keynotes:
• Benjamin Mann, Co-founder at Anthropic — Lessons Learned while Building Anthropic’s LLM, Claude
• Sergey Levine, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Co-founder of Physical Intelligence — Reinforcement Learning with Large Datasets: a Path to Resourceful Autonomous Agents
• Talks:
• The Future is Fine-tuned: Training and Serving Task-specific LLMs
• Fine Tuning Strategies for Language Models and Large Language Models
• AI for Work: How GenAI Improve the Way We Work and Collaborate
• Gen AI in Software Development. What should you be looking for?
• Tutorials:
• Customizing AI with Synthetic Data: Techniques and Real-World Applications
• On-Device Multimodal Model Development and Inference Acceleration
• Workshops:
• Building an Agentic Rag Application with LangGraph
• Function Calling with Llama-3 Running at 1,000 tokens

That’s only a preview of what we have to offer at ODSC West this year! We have over 100 more sessions in our complete schedule, which you can check out here.

Ready to register? Get your pass here while tickets are still 30% off!